'What is this... Why do I feel I am still alive? And like I had limbs?'
Rezo, who died on Earth, felt he had a body he could move.
'What is this…. Why did I feel this something squirming?'
Rezo was curious about the feelings that he really had a body. His eyes opened and welcomed him a Moon above glittering like a thousand fireflies.
'Is this the aftermath of the death? Some phenomena will let you see paradise before your soul transverses to hell?'
'I should just enjoy it as much as time was moving eternally..'
Rezo did just gaze, enjoying the spectacle he only found right now that pleasant to the eyes.
'Sky sure is beautiful. In the past, I was obsessed with my utmost desire which made me walk the path of ruination.'
'But I don't have regrets… even if I am still alive with my body, I will still do it. Even my flesh and blood will experience pain that is much worse than hell because that's the only thing that made me alive.'
Rezo's heart jolted constantly after he noticed why his eyes still could gaze at the unending glow of the sky for such a long time.
"What?"
"Wait.."
`` Why do I hear my thoughts when I voice them?"
Rezo incidentally emitted slightly audible sounds heard by him which made him quite startled.
"Wait....."
Rezo sent his will to the limbs he felt could be moved by him.
"What?!"
Rezo's head jerked around and the place where he was at, unfolded by his sight, a variety of junk scattered in every corner.
"So where am I right now? If I remember correctly, my body was shot by a bullet, and I had no chance to retaliate at all.."
Rezo's heart calmed down when the thought popped up inside his mind that he was truly a dead man.
'When humans experienced a thing out of this world. The instinct would certainly act which makes you fright.'
'Just like I experienced minutes ago. A fearful entity, human.'
SIGH!
Rezo thought for seconds and his eyes eventually folded.
'This what I called paradise must be some sort of phenomenon or illusion. I should just close my eyes and let the world work how they are. Dead is already dead. No matter what you do, you can't bring back the dead to live again. This is fact and truth.'
The eyes of Rezo closed for knows how long it was. Suddenly in the midst of it, fragments of memories flowed into his mind.
What is this..."
Rezo remarked the last words before his eyes rolled and mouth began to flush out a saliva that flowed from his throat. He felt an excruciating twinged assault in every nerve of his body.
Rezo was indeed in a pitiful state right now. Squirming uncontrollably as if possessed by Satan and mouth incessantly salivates, as if catfish.
'A memories....'
...…
"That was unexpected."
Rezo recovered and the equal thing he got from what he suffered was memories, memories of a different person.
'To think I Transmigrated in the body of a 9-years-kid in the world of nowhere.'
Rezo held his head and organized the varieties of scenes from the memories merged with him. Wind blew past him, he breathed and calmed down his head
.
'I don't know if I should be happy about this… but the Lord related that had immense supernatural power to make normal humans in earth worship to them if it there made my dead heart relight once again.'
Rezo ceased his contemplation and gazed at the garbage in front of him.
"With the memories, the cause of death to this child I possessed right now was hunger. After stopping eating for a few days, he died in this place. The city name I was currently at was Bristle Stone City. The one who ruled over this city was a male, the son of a noble in the kingdom who had a bad reputation preceding him was also a noble but already died of illness. This place was lively and pleasant but when the nobles ruled it one month ago, the place experienced famine and many people died. And It seems like the city was already a slum and if not for the guard who cleanse the garbage in the surroundings from time to time.
SIGH!
"I transmigrated but in a dying kid. Well, no need to complain about it. Rendering me an ember of my dream it's already a blessing for me. "
"For now I should fill my stomach or I might end up dead again."
Rezo stood up and rummaged through the garbage with his pallid arm in every corner.
'The Former owner was unable to survive because hated to eat low delicacies. But for me? I am different. More importantly, if I had the chance to make my wish come true in this world.'
Rezo found a noodle with sauce covered on top of a trash can. The hunger engulfed him and promptly ingested it with his soiled hands. To see tomorrow day was the sole reason he made the decision and his mind thought right now was none other than.
'Food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food, food. To survive, I need food. Food.'
"Now that the ember of my dream is presented to me, I must grasp it. Grasp! Grasp! Grasp!"
Rezo finished one and found another one just to fill his stomach with food even though it is very loath to digest by normal beings.
The moon shone brightly in the night sky, guiding him to find a victualed to let him survive for a day.
...…
For a nine-year-old kid, surviving is not a problem if you are born with it. Rezo for all his life first time experienced this kind of living. His body might disagree with the garbage food he digests but with his dream like a sprouting lily in an abyss, he wouldn't mind.
In these past few days, Rezo only did was sought victualed. As long as it can be ingested in the eyes, he wouldn't mind it and guzzled it abruptly. That's how he survived these days, eat to see the tomorrow light.
'If the mother of this body were still alive, I wouldn't probably have experienced this kind of life. But that's how life works, an impartial world. The so-called high status lived lavishly whilst the so-called farmer who had a breakable body did all they could but still lived underneath the society. No matter what they do because above them was an official who controlled their fate.'
'Just like the situation right now. Just because of a certain rascal, countless lives were ruined.'
Rezo's body was presently soiled with trash. His clean tunic was turned junk and his smooth white skin like flowers blossomed was now corroded by the filth of this place.
"I am thirsty."
Countless footsteps on the other sides. Rezo was in a certain alley, took a few steps, and halted at a barrel filled with half of water.
'Finally, water. I can finally quench my thirst.'
The water reflected his pallid face which showed a smile. Rezo's mouth curved up because of glee and began to sustain his body with his hand merged like a gorge. He dipped it and retracted back with water in the middle of his hands. Only then, the problem was solved.
BUWAH!
Rezo slumped on the ground and leaned on the barrel half tall as him.
'Yesterday, I tried begging for water and food but ended up being loathed. This world is really… thankfully I found water at this place, if not I would truly need to seek again in different corners of the city.'
Rezo propped his chin with his hand seems thought unusual.
'Right now I still don't have a plan to get out of this place. With my meager body and status. Hayst.'
Rezo stood up and wiped his sweat with his arm. Looking forward, his foot raised and left the place.
'The afternoon is coming. I should find food to solve my problem this morning.'
...…..
Rezo was in a particular alley unfolding a thick garment on the ground with a vivid flowery image embroidered on it but the soil ruined it.
"I should sleep now."
The night was beautiful, Rezo laid down to rest, and his eyes gradually died.
The posture of his sleeping posture was curved and faced the west. Minutes moved and passed, a loud noise sounded out from his back.
HMMM!
'What is that?'
'Probably a rodent. I should just sleep.'
Rezo unheeded the sounds from his hind but for a very long time it still sounded out as he was eventually disturbed.
'I should expel it. Disturbing my rest of the night.'
Rezo decided to shoot it. His eyes opened and propelled his body to stand up.
'Let me see.'
Rezo looked at the side corner filled with junk and his eyes dilated to even make him smile. He saw a big person eating a banana displayed by the glow of the moon in the night sky, slouched on a box.
MUM!
MUM!
MUM!
'This..... good, I could now see my destiny.'
Rezo smiled and instinctively gait at it. The person-sized were like a bear in the north pole, a large man with curly blond hair, and sharp teeth slowly ingested the banana held by his large arm.
'I should follow this big man. Following a strong is an act of survival and with my meager body, I don't think I could survive for a long time in this place.'
Rezo halted an inch away from him through the soundings of junks on every side. His head face on the ground, scared of the outcome of his next phase. Sweat started to appear on his neck, he cleared his throat.
"Oh deity from heaven, may I ask what your name is?"
Rezo voiced out and after it, he didn't move his body. He was just waiting for his reply. The quiet night blew a wind, he was sure that he stood here for one breath of time yet the anticipation he wanted hadn't come.
'Does the big man angry? Am I going to die in this place? No, I will escape even if death comes to me.'
Rezo's heart throbbed thinking it for a moment and when he raised his head an inconceivable occurred.
'Why did he just eat the banana and didn't look at me?'
Vessels in every part of his body gradually stream quietly. In such minutes of time peered at the guy, he found the reasons why his behavior turned out like that.
"This guy is a defect or abnormal if it's in my world."
NOM!
NOM!
NOM!
NOM!
Rezo breathed and slumped to the ground. He wiped the trickling sweat from his body with his tunic sleeves.
'Earlier my body was shivering because of frightening but to think that he was actually a defective person.'
Rezo gazed at the big guy, gradually his mouth curved into a smile.
'I don't know if it's blessings in disguise or whatnot but to take the first leap in my dream, I need him.'
Rezo thought for a moment and finally found a reasonable one. His mouth opened and asked.
"Who are you?"
"Hey? Who are you?"
"Did you not hear me? Hey!"
Rezo's voice reverberated in the surroundings below the surreal evening yet the big guy didn't even jeer.
'As expected of a defect person.'
The means he did was deemed useless. He stretched out his hand and snatched the banana in his grasp.
'Let's see if you still won't notice me.'
Rezo snatched it and took a few steps back and looked in front, found the big guy jolted looking at him. The big guy who slouched stood up and his arm extended forward.
"Mah food." Said a big man with a deep voice.
Rezo saw it trod at him as he slowly took a few steps back with a banana in his hand as if baited him while he continued to make a gap between them.
'He can talk? I thought he couldn't but he actually can. This was good. With it, maybe I can do something.'
He once again asked him with eyes as if a predator already locked on his prey.
"Do tell me, what is your name?"
"Do tell me, what is your name?!"
"Hey! What is your name!"
Rezo noticed their gap decreased, he deviated and kept yelling, moseying around him, certainly a kid with something behind that a mere human couldn't identify.
'When I first saw it, something in my head became clearer. You will definitely fall on my hands.'
The garbage was everywhere whilst he moved around his eyes and rummaged every corner to find something needed for his situation right now.
'I don't know if it's possible, but I will gamble this time. If it's going the wrong way, I will just escape on my own as fast as I can.'
As time moved on, something caught his eyes. He dashed away and quickly grasped it with his right hand.
'Now, let's see.'
Rezo drew earlier on the corner was a tattered whip found by his sight. Grabbing it with his own made him blissful and quite nervous. For now, the gamble he made was implemented.